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Western Australia Roads

Western Australia

This is the largest state in the country, and for road enthusiasts, it is a fascinating place to study. The southwestern corner is where the majority of its population are, which means that other parts are sparsely populated. It was only in the 1980s that you could even drive from one end of the state to the other on a sealed road. The massive development of mining interests and outback tourism helped the state road network. In listing out the highways in Western Australia, a major challenge was how to classify the list since it is pretty complicated. There are highways in the state that are declared highways, some have the title of highways without being one in reality, and some don't have highways attached to their names even though they are highways. This made it necessary for them to classify them with clarifications. Here are the classifications

Declared Highways with Names

These are highways that are declared as under the Main Roads Act 1930, and they have highways attached to their names. They include

Albany Highway

Brand Highway

Eyre Highway

Great Eastern Highway

North West Coastal Highway

Great Northern Highway

South Coast Highway

Coolgardie-Esperance Highway

South Western Highway

Victoria Highway

Stirling Highway

Canning Highway

Leach Highway

Forrest Highway

Williams - Narrogin Highway

Brookton Highway

Goldfields Highway

Derby Highway

Coalfields Highway

Bussell Highway

Broome Highway

Reid Highway

Great Eastern Highway Bypass

Roe Highway

Tonkin Highway

Stirling Highway

Canning Highway

Declared Highways without names

These are highways that are declared as such under the Main Roads Act 1930, but they don’t have the highway name attached to them.

They include

Melville - Mandurah Road

Horrie Miller Drive

John Willcock Link

Beach Street

John Willcock Link

Beach Street

Madigan Road

Carnarvon Road

Albany Port Road

Garratt Road Bridge

Tydeman Road

Queen Victoria Street

Marmion Avenue

road on western wilderness
Desert Road, Namibia

Non-declared Highways

These are roads that were not declared as highways under the Main Roads Act 1930, but they have the highway name attached to them.

They include

Vasse Highway

Muirs Highway

Great Southern Highway

Brockman Highway

Decommissioned Highways

These are highways that are declared as such under the Main Roads Act 1930, but they are no longer considered to be highways.

They include

Geraldton Highway

Duncan Highway

Deserted road into Cederberg nature reserve